Urdu Dictionary
Arabic · noun · Time, Fate & the Cosmos

Samaa

समा
said sa-maa
also written: Sama
Meaning

The sky, the heaven; the canopy of the firmament.

How Iqbal uses it

The Arabic heaven figures in Iqbal as the vault over creation, an expanse the soul reads as both limit and invitation.

See it in the verse

Samaa in Iqbal’s couplets

Sama sakta nahin pahna-e-fitrat mein mera sauda
Ghalat tha ai junun shayad tera andaza-e-sahra
My passion cannot be contained even in the vastness of nature; O madness, perhaps your measure of the desert was wrong.
Restlessness · Aspiration · Selfhood
Related words
PERSIAN

Asmaan

The sky, the heavens.

ARABIC

Falak / Aasman

The sky, the heavens, the firmament (aflak = the celestial spheres).

ARABIC

Arsh

The Divine Throne, the highest created reality encompassing the cosmos.

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